Thursday January 15, 2009 Updated 9:53 PM PST
In short State of the State address Thursday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warns California "is in a state of emergency" until budget crisis is solved.
The Senate approved a major expansion of wilderness areas nationwide Thursday, protecting more than 2 million acres of public land from drilling, logging and mining, including 735,000 acres across California.
The huge wilderness conservation package approved by the U.S. Senate would forever protect some of California's most spectacular scenery, including snowcapped peaks and forests of giant sequoia trees.
Former BART police officer who shot an unarmed man to death on an Oakland train platform early New Year's Day in court in Alameda County to face murder charges.
Nine are among activists chaining selves together to block main entrance to the building on Montgomery Street in rally against military actions in Gaza.
Murder-suicide is at least the third in the Bay Area this month in which the perpetrator indicated financial problems drove them to do it, police say.
What's a baby female giraffe worth? A cool $70,000. That's the price the San Francisco Zoo charged Six Flags Discovery Kingdom for Barbro, who was born at the zoo a year ago.
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The city of Oakland intends to fire 11 police officers for allegedly lying to obtain search warrants in drug cases, officials said...
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Bay Area air quality officials have declared a Spare the Air alert through noon Friday, meaning wood fires are banned to prevent...
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Footage from store surveillance cameras led San Francisco police to a suspect in the stabbing death of a man on a Tenderloin street...
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